The difference between Join and Link
When used as nouns, join means an intersection of piping or wiring, whereas link means a connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
When used as verbs, join means to combine more than one item into one, whereas link means to connect two or more things.
check bellow for the other definitions of Join and Link
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Join as a noun:
An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
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Join as a noun (computing, databases):
An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
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Join as a noun (algebra):
The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol .
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Join as a verb (transitive):
To combine more than one item into one; to put together.
Examples:
"The plumber joined the two ends of the broken pipe. We joined our efforts to get an even better result."
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Join as a verb (intransitive):
To come together; to meet.
Examples:
"Parallel lines never join. These two rivers join in about 80 miles."
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Join as a verb (transitive):
To come into the company of.
Examples:
"I will join you watching the football game as soon as I have finished my work."
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Join as a verb (transitive):
To become a member of.
Examples:
"Many children join a sports club. Most politicians have joined a party."
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Join as a verb (computing, databases, transitive):
To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
Examples:
"By joining the Customer table on the Product table, we can show each customer's name alongside the products they have ordered."
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Join as a verb:
To unite in marriage.
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Join as a verb (obsolete, rare):
To enjoin upon; to command.
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Join as a verb:
To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
Examples:
"to join encounter, battle, or issue"
"rfquotek Milton"
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Link as a noun:
A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
Examples:
"The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media."
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Link as a noun:
One element of a chain or other connected series.
Examples:
"The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered."
"The weakest link."
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Link as a noun:
Examples:
"The link on the page points to the sports scores."
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Link as a noun (computing):
The connection between buses or systems.
Examples:
"A by-N-link is composed of N lanes."
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Link as a noun (mathematics):
A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
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Link as a noun (Sussex):
a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
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Link as a noun (figurative):
an individual person or element in a
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Link as a noun:
Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
Examples:
"a link of horsehair"
"rfquotek Mortimer"
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Link as a noun:
A sausage that is not a patty.
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Link as a noun (kinematics):
Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
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Link as a noun (engineering):
Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
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Link as a noun (surveying):
The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.
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Link as a noun (chemistry):
A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
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Link as a noun (plural):
The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
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Link as a verb (transitive):
To connect two or more things.
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Link as a verb (intransitive, of a Web page):
To contain a hyperlink to another page.
Examples:
"My homepage links to my wife's."
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Link as a verb (transitive, Internet):
To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
Examples:
"Haven't you seen his Web site? I'll link you to it."
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Link as a verb (transitive, Internet):
To post a hyperlink to.
Examples:
"Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!"
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Link as a verb (transitive):
To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
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Link as a verb (compilation):
To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
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Link as a noun (obsolete):
A torch, used to light dark streets.
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"
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Link as a verb (Scotland, intransitive):
To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.